With the release of this recording by Pandit Mallikarjun Mansur (1911-1992) Dunya expands its Indian music series to take in another essential part of the musics vocal tradition. Less antique and austere than the dhrupad, Khayals is probably the most p...

“Proximo is the third release from Mantra, a five piece prog rock band from Belo Horizonte in Brazil. The band has virtually no web presence so I can't really elaborate much about their history. What I know is that they are what I call a "kitchen sink" band - they have so many influences they wear on their sleeve that its like listening to a who's who of prog. Overall I'd categorize this as symphonic rock but there are some interesting moments like when they incorporate a ripping...

The third and wildest yet from this avant / new music power trio with ties to Zevious (they share bassist Johnny DeBlase).

"A wild instrumental power trio from Philly, these three manic music masters have released 2 albums to date and this...

I saw these guys in a tiny DC-area club about 5 months ago. They play a wild, powerful form of power-trio out-rock. I really enjoyed their set and this is basically what I saw! These guys are jazz-trained, but rock-ready. If your taste runs towards...

“Phil Manzanera's first post-Roxy foray into solo albums is a terrific all-star affair that still holds up enormously well. Calling on favors from Roxy members present and past, and those from the Cambridge/British art rock scene, Manzanera assembled a supergroup for every song.
Robert Wyatt sings Spanish gibberish on the opener "Frontera," a rewrite of his own "Team Spirit." Brian Eno teams up for the sunny "Big Day" and the nonsensical "Miss Shapiro," both of which would not have been out of place..

“Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay. The saxophone and guitar heavy, ambient set captures the instrumental interplay and unique textural sounds for which Manzanera and Mackay have come to be known for.”

“During the UK’s 2020/2021 Covid Lockdowns I was working on songs with Tim Finn but I also had an urge to do some spontaneous instrumental music. I rang Andy Mackay and asked if he would be interested in working on an album together, he was, and thus the AM PM album was started. After...

A breakthrough release from this young Israeli guitarist who has been living in New York since 1999. Featuring a spectacular ensemble of downtown superstars, the music is a raging rock/jazz fusion touching upon Tony Williams Lifetime, John Zorns Masada...

This was the second and final release by Spain's Maquina. Originally a double album, it was recorded live in Barcelona in 1972, 2 years after their Why? album. Their sound had changed quite a bit in the interim, adding jazz and even blues influences, a...

Maquina performed live and released their first single in 1969, making them among the first genuine underground groups from Spain. One year later, their first album Why? Mquina! was recorded. The title track was a two-part freak-out, with an ongoing...

“Alexandre Maraslis is a Brazilian multi-instrumentist that played in some progressive bands (Chronos Mundi, Montauk Project) and after 21 years he releases his second solo project, called Maraslis.
For this one he united a super group of progressive rock players, with Pedro Baldanza (Som Nosso de Cada Dia), Beth Dau (Hermeto Pascoal), Braulio Drumond (Di´Anno), Artur Cirio (Cold Blood), Robson Bertolossi (Octohpera e Chronos Mundi), Alex Frias (AJJA).
The tracks on the CD are meant to work as..

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation."Author Pearl S. Buck's famous quotation seems especially appropriate when discussing the musical configuration called..

Christian Marclay was one of the earliest folks to make an art form out of the turntable, using the device as a tool to make suprising juxtapositions. Emerging from the unbelievably fertile late 70s / early 80s downtown improv scene (where I first...

“This is the big one. Digipacked. Historic. Unmissable.”-Chris Cutler

More Encores was originally released as a vinyl record in 1988, and is composed entirely of records after whom each track is titled. Artists whose vinyl artifacts are subjected to Marclay's treatments include: John Zorn, John Cage, Louis Armstrong Fred Frith, Ferrante & Teicher, Maria Callas, Jimi Hendrix, Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin and Marclay himself!

"Christian Marclay was the first non-rap DJ to make an art.

The guitars of Sonic Youth with turntable avantist Marclay. ...a wall of beautiful noise was erected...mesmeric abandon.-The Independent. [Victo]

Long out of print, we found exactly NINE copies in the lost warehouse!

This was Albert’s fifth album. It includes an outtake from the Celiu sessions, released as a single at the time.
Not quite up to the work of his first four releases (that’s because nothing is), this was issued after a long layoff in 1990, and boy – oh – boy, was I thrilled to see it’s appearance at the time.
The title translates as ‘My Life With Them (but the Them is feminine, meaning I always took the....

Michael Marcus – Woodwinds
Joe McPhee – Woodwinds

Jay Rosen – Percussion
Warren Smith – Percussion

In 2018, jazz musician extraordinaire Michael Marcus got an invite to bring his duo with drummer Jay Rosen to the Austrian venue Jazzgalerie Nickelsdorf. And when he arrived, the promoter of their show sprung a novel idea on them: performing their set with fellow reedsman Joe McPhee and another drummer. “It was a great concept,” Marcus remembers. “And the chemistry was really good.”

Fuzzy packaging.

Compositions for tapes, electronics, voice, drones. Rex Xhu Ping (pronounced rex shoe ping) features Margolis (tapes, electronics, clarinet, and sundries), Laura Biagi (vocals), Dan Andreana (speaker, tapes), Detta Andreana (tapes, bowed cymbals), and...

Luciano was the guitarist and leader of LA 1919 for many years. Here he works on a project where most of the recordings here he constructed pieces out of guitar improvisations received through the mail, and then added musical materials (his own guitar, as well as other instruments like bass, drumloops, samples, etc.) and assembled it all together. Each guest guitarist gets one track.
Included are: Derek Bailey, Waedi Gysi, Nick Didkovsky, Elliott Sharp, Angelo Avogadri, Franco Fabbri, Eugene...

"New ensemble comprised to develop and record the songs of Adrienne Pierluissi, a contemporary painter living in Milwaukee, WI, featuring Ken Vandermark, Nick Macri, Tim Daisy, John Dereszynski, Rick Reger, Joe McPhee, Tomeka Reid, and Jen Paulson...

" "The cold war's gone, but those bastards'll find us another one/They're here to protect you, don't you know?/So get used to it - Get used to it!.../The sense that it's useless, and the fear to try/Not believing the leaders, the media that feed us/Living with the big lie." ("Living With the Big Lie," from Brave)
In the 27 years since Steve Hogarth took over as lead vocalist for Marillion, the band has had only one bona fide concept album: the aurally and emotionally stunning Brave (1994). Using as...

"Marillion's 15th album is actually double album split into two separate CDs. "Happiness is the Road Volume Two" is subtitled "The Hard Shoulder" and contains all new material from one of the most loved and passionate bands in the world. A new creative...

Ossi Maristo - guitars, compositions
Kasperi Kallio - keyboards
Tapio Backlund - bass
Jonne Taavitsainen - drums

Very good electric jazz work from this until now unknown player.

"Ossi Maristo is a thirtysomething guitar player living in Helsinki, Finland. Being born into a family of music lovers naturally led him to taking up piano studies at the age of nine and eventually the guitar at twelve. The teenage years were spent vigorously playing just about anything...